Dress like Jennifer Tilly

Wearing a hat, a hood or sunglasses can help to cover your eyes so no one can tell when you look at your cards or study other players.

When we sit down at the poker table, we usually try to size up our opponents and their clothes are the biggest tell before the first card has been played and you can use this to your advantage.

Dressing like a pro can also male you feel like a pro (but nor play like one). However like Poker itself, there’s still a deeper level, consider the idea of fashion as a bluff.
While playing poker at a big Vegas Casino I shared a table with a guy who was wearing shorts, socks, a hard Rock Café hat and a horrid Hawaiian shirt, this guy looked for all the world like just another tourist. The way he acted fitted his clothes down to a tea, telling stories, laughing hard, complaining about the heat, amazed at the size of the casino and joking with the dealer and other players.
But for a tourist rube he played the cards like a Ungar. He played very few hands and when he did he played tight and aggressive. This was no travelling mug, and I treaded very lightly when we found ourselves going for the same pot.
Beyond dressing like a chump, there are a couple of things you can do at the table to improve your chances of winning.

There are some big tells that can be deduced from your eyes. If a player quickly looks at the flop, looks down at his stack and swiftly looks away, the flop most likely helped his cards. On the converse, if a player is intently studying the flop it probably hadn’t help him and he’d be trying to figure out some combination that’ll work for him.

Recently it became legal to have headphones at the poker table. Initially, there was a little hoo-ha as reading players’ emotions and their cards should be tantamount and headphones were considered a distraction.
But the idea caught and many professionals were seen sporting headphones and winning pots. A headphones wearer may give off the impression that he is not bothered about the game in front of him, and trick the opponents lean into the punch. That may have worked when headphones were a novelty, but that ship’s pretty much sailed now.

The great thing about online poker is you can wear what you like, be it your favourite gown, hockey shirt or tuxedo, as you can when writing about poker.

Poker or card games in general, have been around since the 15th century. Wow…that’s quite a ways back in history isn’t it? Just think about how many players have reinvented new ways to play the game. Historically speaking Omaha can even be considered fairly new. But no matter what game is played, poker is poker; so how could there possibly be a chance that there is no one specific way to play?

Often, players who have come to know the game of poker well have learned to place opponents and other players in certain categories. There are many of these categories that opponents and players fall into in order to classify their particular skill at the game; for example here’s a few: There’s the scared fish that rarely bets or calls, and when he/she does they fold right away as soon as they sense danger, even when it may not be there. There is the terribly underrated novice that can often pull a good play from his/her sleeve and actually does understand the important aspects of the game but is not quite on par with veteran status yet. There is the slimy loud-mouth or bragger that usually thinks they are an extreme poker pro, but really doesn’t have any skill at the game whatsoever. This list can go on and on, but the fact remains that all of these categories and classifications so to speak are very broad. Some players may fall perfectly between categories, and others may play the game with a mixed bunch of aspects from a number of classifications. The main point being made here is that no one player is the same, no matter how similar they play or what category they can be placed into.

One saying that holds true in the world of poker, much like it does in the real world is; “what works for some, may not work for others”. Some players may be very aggressive, and may go all-in quite often and they remain successful where other players can’t. Some players may check bet more often and pull in tons of cash, while others rarely even use the strategy. Some players may hold back more chips no matter what cards they have, and still bank out with plenty of cash, while others just lose it all using the same technique. It basically means that every player will have different ways to play the game and be successful. This is attributed to the fact that everyone has their own set of strengths and weaknesses. It is also important to note that over time players’ change, much like they do in life. Players in a late stage of their poker career will not play the same as they would in a novice or earlier stage. This is mainly due to experience, and knowledge built up over time.

Because players’ constantly change and adapt, they never truly fall into these “categories” that have been made up to classify a broad range of players. This does not mean that you can’t use the category strategy (classifying opponents) to play the game; on the contrary if it works then use it. This simply means that, as stated above, no one player is truly like another.

That’s fine and dandy but what does all of this have to do with poker advice? The answer is very simple.

The people who write the poker advice columns, make the strategy movies, post tips on blogs and so on and so forth, are biased. The reason I say they are biased is because they are simply reporting strategies that work well for them when they are playing the game. This same concept holds true for pros and veterans of the sport. If every player has a different successful strategy for playing the game that works for them, then how does it make sense for the advice they give to work for everyone? I’m sorry to let you down guys (this is for you vets out there), but as time goes on the game evolves just as much as the players participating do and strategies that didn’t work before all of a sudden will; just like some that do work now, no longer will work correctly at a later time. Take the differences between online poker and real table poker for example; there are many things you can’t do at a real table that you can while playing online and vice versa.

Just because Joe Blow the super pro says that playing aggressively will earn you a large stack doesn’t necessarily mean it will work for you. That is the way Joe Blow plays, and while he may be successful at it, you might not have the skills or knowledge to do the same. The same idea means that just because he is trying to teach you, doesn’t mean it will work after you know how to play his way.

Poker advice must be taken in moderation, especially if you already are plenty successful because of the current way you are playing. Sometimes changing up game strategies even a little can be deadly in the long run, just like sometimes it can help you cash in big. It all depends on how YOU play the game of poker, and YOUR strengths and weaknesses.

This doesn’t necessarily mean you should stop reading or searching for poker advice on a constant basis; it just means you need to be aware what type of player you are and where your individual strengths remain. This in turn means that if you read an advice column that talks about using one of your weaknesses to play the game then you can be sure you probably won’t win much money when using that particular person’s strategy; that is exactly why these problems of ours are called “weaknesses”. They are OUR weaknesses not someone else’s, and that person sitting opposite might have the exact same aspect that is a strength, instead of a weakness.

So, one thing to keep in mind when reading your daily poker advice columns is that just because the article tells you a particular strategy works great doesn’t mean it will for you, and it doesn’t mean that you should change your game to compensate for what was mentioned. Every player is different regardless of how similar two players may act in a game; and every player has their own set of strategies that are successful. If you have your strategies that work, then use them and don’t discard ‘em just because of Joe Blow the super pro and his biased advice. There is no individual, certain and all powerful way to play the game of poker; there are many.

The saying with poker might as well be, “NO Strategy to Rule Them All” because in essence every strategy could work if used correctly.

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